hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
make when they re trying to protect life and lymph other americans has to be on the table as far as any discussion. the parts that go around that, let s face it, if it s not going to pass the senate it s not going to go anywhere in the house so should probably occur in the senate. we ll see what comes from that. we need to let you go. you re on the house ethics. there s a lot you cannot say. what can you say about the status of the george santos investigation? i can t say because right now anything on ethics that would appear before ethics i was a member in the last term. i ve been appointed again. some say that s like being on internal affairs but i view it as an honor that the speaker would think enough of me to be able to sit it s the speaker that said the staff is starting the preliminary work. i can t say because i haven t we haven t had an organizational meeting. that will come up soon, once they do they will announce their decisions on what they ll move forward on.